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| Mayu Matsuoka as Yuka, the titular Suizokukan (Aquarium) Girl |
Just started watching Suizokukan Girl, but I GOTTA say I’m having a hard time getting into it.... You know how the cliche goes with “New girl joins an establishment but the head employee doesn’t respect her and wants her to quit, but they end up being romantically involved”? Well, the cliche is alive and well in this drama! Yes, I already saw a bit of that cliche in the Mirei Kiritani drama Sukina Hito ga Iru Koto, but MAN, the main guy in Suizokukan Girl (Kenta Kiritani) is SUCH an unbelievable JERK to the main girl Yuka (Mayu Matsuoka) I can barely watch it!
Suizokukan Girl (Aquarium Girl) tells the tale of, you guessed it, a girl who gets demoted from her posh office job down to working at the company's Aquarium. And of course, when she gets there, the people there all don't like her and give her a hard time. She is given an ultimatum- if she can't identify the dolphins and get them to eat from her hand, she has to quit. But with everyone against her, how will she ever persevere?
At least in the Mirei Kiritani show, the "head guy who hates the main girl" seemed to genuinely think she didn’t care about the restaurant, and once he did, he began to warm to her. But in Suizokukan Girl, this guy yells at her even when the other employees are teaching her! If they hand her a fish, he comes out and yells "don't touch the fish with those hands!" When an employee invites Yuka to pet the dolphin he runs out and says "Don't come down here!” Plus, everybody, even the other employees, acts like Yuka's an idiot for not knowing things even though it's her first day in an Aquarium environment!!
Too bad, because I like the main character very much, Mayu Matsuoka is hands-down adorable in her role as the addled, klutzy but sweet and good-hearted Yuka. Very, very cute.
But i don’t know if I can take much more of this one-dimensional bullying, not only by her new aquarium employees, but her ex-boss and ex-boyfriend too! This poor girl, she’s got every possible cliche against her!
But WAIT! Hold the Presses!!! WELL! What do you know, it looks like Yuka’s best friend Kumiko Koshiba is being played by none other than…RIKA ADACHI!
Well! that’s a horse of a different color! looks Like I’ll have to stick around and see what’s up after all! LOL
"Zdorama said he'll continue watching the show as long as I'm in it."
"They hung up."
Posted by zdorama @ zdoramaagain.blogspot.com
